Re: Leading Darwinists Admit That Life Has No Purpose

Conspiracy of Doves wrote:
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> Sound of Trumpet wrote:
>> http://www.icr.org/article/3513%20/
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>> Darwinism: Survival without Purpose
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>> by Jerry Bergman, Ph.D.*
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>> Humans have always wondered about the meaning of life...life has no
>> higher purpose than to perpetuate the survival of DNA...life has no
>> design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless
>> indifference.1 --Richard Dawkins
>>
> 
> Meaning and  purpose do not exist in nature. They are purely human
> concepts.

Sound of Trumpet's copypasta is based upon a straw man argument.

When Dawkins, or any other biological scientist says "life has no 
purpose" they are talking about simple,base physical existance and 
nothing more. A basic scientific definition.

But Sound of Trumpet uses a different mean of the word "life". He' using 
  it in a metaphysical context, such as a teenager "What am I going to 
do with my life?" when he is trying to decide whether to university or 
apprentice a trade or how a person might refer to "the guiding principle 
of my life" which tells her how she should act towards others. Now 
obviously that teenager isn't meaning that he's pondering a life of 
digesting and breathing and all the other base physical process of life. 
Nor does the person mean that  pumping blood through her veins or 
producing insulin in her kidneys is what directs her on her life path.

Sound of Trumpet conflates these two very different definitions of the 
word "life" in order to make it seem like evolution is an immoral way of 
"life" when it is simply once of the base processes of life itself.

The use of this dishonest tactic is in implicit admission that the 
arguer cannot counter act the mountains of evidence which exist for 
evolution and that they must rely upon deliberate deception to get their 
audience to agree with them.